PUBLIC PROGRAMS SCHEDULE:

In conjunction with the exhibition, QueLaCo will host a series of public events. All events will take place at Galeria de la Raza, including:

Staged Reading: THE LOVE OF BROTHERS
An exciting new play by accomplished New York-based playwright and actor Mario Golden.
Saturday, June 07, 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $8

Poetry & Prose Reading
Poets and writers bring their most intimate queer experiences to the spoken word. Curated by A. Carolina Morales
Friday, June 20th, 7:30pm
Admission: $8

Film Screenings
Two evenings of Queer Latino Films
Thursday, July 18 and Friday, July 19th, 7:30pm
Admission: $5

 Humor and Joteria
An unforgettable night of performance,& humor featuring Dino Foxx,
"Coco" Ferrer and other queer Latin@s
Friday, June 27, 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $8

Campy Ethnotopias
An evening of two experimental shorts, The Dimension of IS by Heather Cox-Carducci and Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosaand LezBros, created in collaboration with Dara Sklar, Brynn Gelbard, Melinda Bagatelos, and Lisa Donohoe. The films explore the future of ethnography and anthropology from queer, feminist and multiracial perspectives.
Friday, July 25th @ 7:30
Admission: $5

>>Dimension of IS: A Spectacular Future is a postcolonial sci-fi video that humorously speculates about the evolution of the phenomenon of world's fairs in the near future.

>> LezBros, explores the unique friendship between guys and dykes in a sassy mix of faux-anthropology, reality TV and techno-pop music video
For more information concerning event details please visit quelaco.org or galeriadelaraza.org.

QueLaCo (Queer Latino Artists Collective) is pleased to present a series of events celebrating its 10th anniversary in the context of the 10th Annual Queer Latino Arts Festival. The festival will consist of two consecutive visual arts exhibitions, and a series of public events, such as poetry readings, film screenings, and artist talks.

The first exhibition, Maria:  Politics. Sex. Death. Men. curated by Leonardo Herrera, explores the defense mechanisms and survival instincts of young Latino gay men through a psychedelic showcase of Magical Realism, sex and gay iconography. Through the use of candid photography, digital collage, costume, video installation and drawings, the artists delve into the assimilation of San Francisco's Gay community brought on by both outside forces such as politics and the media, as well as from within the gay community itself.

The exhibition will include photography (digital, candid and fashion) by Keith Aguiar, Robert Guzman, Leonardo Herrera and Jody Jock, costumes by Money Shot, a text installation by Ernest Soprani as well as a multimedia installation by Jonathan Solo.  Leonardo Herrera's work is inspired by counterculture revolutions of the past and present and cultural trends.   Maria:  Politics. Sex. Death. Men. curated by Leonardo Herrera was the winning proposal of a call to cuarortors, and was selected from seven curatorial proposals submitted to a Review Panel composed by John Blanco (artist), Raquel de Anda (Curator), Carolina Ponce de León (Curator), Alberto Rangel (artist), and Rebeka Rodriguez (artist/educator).

Maria:  Politics. Sex. Death. Men. curated by Leonardo Herrera was the winning proposal of a call to cuarortors, and was selected from seven curatorial proposals submitted to a Review Panel composed by John Blanco (artist), Raquel de Anda (Curator), Carolina Ponce de León (Curator), Alberto Rangel (artist), and Rebeka Rodriguez (artist/educator).

The second exhibition, Narrating Identity (Dis)locating Bodies, is curated by Monica Enriquez-Enriquez and delves into the concept of diasporic identities through a multimedia installation of photography and video installation.  Identity in this case will be looked at through narratives of both Latino and South Asian perspectives illustrating at times an overlap and cultural synthesis.Monica Enriquez-Enriquez’s mixed media community installation, Queering the Margins, creates a visual narrative of Queer Asylees and Queer Asylum Seekers.  Through publicly displaying the bodies, voices and sexualities of her participants, Monica seeks to “queer” the margins created by a white, heterosexual, patriotic, and politically enfranchised male.  Her video installation is comprised of a series of audio clips from eight participants projected onto three body-sized screens.
Also included in the exhibition are photographs by Rebeka Rodriguez of individuals involved in Monica’s asylum project, a series of video documentaries by Vanessa Huang and Mujeres al Rescate de la Cultura de la Calle (Ines Morales and Susana Quiroz), and films by Sonali Gulati's films, in which the artist pushes the genre of documentary by intermixing fictional narrative in her works to create a stronger presence for an underrepresented population.  Her inspiration comes in finding the overlaps and spaces between gender, race, class and sexuality.

ABOUT QUELACO:
QueLaCo is a non-profit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Latina/o artists dedicated to promote the arts within our diverse community. As an organization, we strive to gain voice, recognition and prominence within the larger landscape of our vibrant arts world.
The Annual Queer Latina/o Arts Festival (QueLAFest /June) seeks to showcase the talents and contributions of our community in an environment that recognizes the intersections of culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.